Jenna is a fellow culinary school grad, and while we didn’t go to school together, it would have been pretty awesome if we had! I mean, I can’t even imagine the shenanigans we might have gotten into had we been in school together! I love this girl! We got to spend a few days together in Louisiana earlier this year and she’s just awesome. (we may or may not have gone on a midnight alligator hunt in the middle of a giant thunderstorm on a remote island on the outskirts on Louisiana. Like I said, I can’t even fathom of what other adventures we would have if we lived in the same city!)

And her recipes. OMG. This Flourless Chocolate Cake is life changing. I could have eaten all of these but I was forced to share with some friends that were over. (rude of them to ask me to share such a decadent and delicious chocolate concoction!)

Her book is the story of her journey though culinary school and it’s peppered with some of her delicious recipes. I read it beachside in Mexico while we were there for our honeymoon and it was so fun to read all about Jenna’s culinary and pastry school days because it reminded me so much of the trials and tribulations I went through too.

So today I’m sharing one of Jenna’s recipes! (with her permission of course) It’s the perfect cake to celebrate her first book!

So if you’re into culinary tales, or want some awesome recipes to kick things up a bit in the kitchen, you’ve gotta pick up this book!

Jenna usually makes this as one big layered cake - but I opted to make it in little ramekins so it would be easy to pass out at a dinner party! And since I wasn't going to have to frost the outside or the inner layers of the cake, I made a little less frosting so I wouldn't be tempted to attack it with a spoon! By myself. Watching some reality TV!

Either way - it's delicious!

Ingredients

For the Cake

10 ounces (about 2 cups) semisweet chocolate

5 ounces unsalted butter

6 eggs, at room temperature

1/2 cup granulated sugar

For the frosting

1 sticks butter, softened

1 cups confectioner’s sugar

1/2 tablespoon 2% milk

1 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Thoroughly butter 10 ramekins with butter and dust with flour.

In a small saucepan over very low heat, melt chocolate and butter together.

While mixture is melting, whip eggs in a stand mixer at high speed.

After about 3 minutes, when eggs start to become thick and pale, add sugar slowly.

Continue whipping on high until the mixture is thick, pale, and ribbony, about 6-8 more minutes.

Slowly fold melted chocolate into the egg-and-sugar mixture, gently turning with a rubber spatula so that batter stays light and airy.

Evenly pour batter into the prepared ramekins and place them on a large cookie sheet.

Bake for 20 minutes, then remove from oven and let cool completely.

While cakes are cooling, make the frosting. In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter and sugar together until combined. Add milk and vanilla extract, and continue beating on high until the frosting is thick and light, about 5 minutes.

When the cakes are cooled completely, pipe even amounts of the frosting on top of each ramekin.

I love your rendition of this recipe in the individual ramekins – so cute and easy to serve! However, I would totally be tempted to keep all of them for myself in my fridge and take out one (or two) every night to enjoy as a little treat. I’m not much into TV these days, but I think these would be the perfect accompaniment to a good book!